Paras in Action - Ready for Anything - the Parachute Regiment Through the Eyes of Those Who Served by Jason Woods
$75.00 AUD
Category: Military
The date is the 6 June 1944. The paratroopers on board the aircraft are crammed together, joking and singing over the drone of the engines, none of them dwelling on the gnawing fear in their guts. They reach the French coastline, and everyone goes quiet when loud explosions and flashes erupt around the ...Show more
Women in the Second World War by Collette Drifte
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military
Women in the Second World War explores the experiences of women who served in the armed forces, or complimentary services. Using interviews, anecdotes, memoirs and/or accounts from the women (or, where appropriate, their children), the book tells the women's personal accounts of what their lives were li ...Show more
The Commanders - The Leadership Journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery and Erwin Rommel by Lloyd Clark
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
A fascinating biography of Patton, Montgomery and Rommel which reveals how these three unique personalities rose to the highest ranks.
Dispatch from Berlin, 1943: The story of five journalists who risked everything by Anthony Cooper
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
'This is a helluva way to get a story.’In December 1943, five brave correspondents join a British bombers air raid on Berlin. They are Australians, Alf King from the Sydney Morning Herald and Norm Stockton from the Sydney Sun; Americans, Ed Murrow from CBS and Lowell Bennett from the International News ...Show more
Masters of War: A Visual History of Military Personnel from Commanders to Frontline Fighters by DK
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
A comprehensive guide to the most inspirational and influential military leaders and fighting forces of all timeExplore the lives and achievements of history's most important military figures with this illustrated guide to military men and women.Featuring more than 100 key generals and military leaders ...Show more
War in the Pacific: Storm Approaching 1931 - 1941 by Peter Harmsen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
War in the Pacific is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war against Japan; unlike other histories it expands the narrative beginning long before Pearl Harbor and encompasses a much wider group of actors to produce the most complete narrative yet written and the first truly internati ...Show more
Viking Boys: Beaufighters, Bravery and Lost Airmen by John Quaife
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
An Australian attack aircraft flies into a ship with guns blazing. Both crewmen are killed, but does anyone notice? At the entrance to Orsta fjord, down an overgrown path, a granite stone stands on a rocky outcrop at the water’s edge. Roughly inscribed in English, it records the loss of two yo ...Show more
The Battle for Isurava: Fighting in the clouds of the Owen Stanley 1942 by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Within 24 hours of the Japanese invasion of northern New Guinea at Gona in July 1942, the Australian militiamen of ‘B’ Company, 39th Battalion, spent four weeks fighting a delaying action against a crack Japanese force outnumbered by three to one. By mid-August, the rest of the battalion had arrived, an ...Show more
The Island of Extraordinary Captives - A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal by Simon Parkin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo's moonlit roundups he had narrowly avoided at home in Berlin. Now, having endured a perilous journey to reach England - hiding from the rampaging Nazi thugs at his orphanage, boarding a Kindertransport to s ...Show more
Sailors Behind the Medals by Chris BILHAM
$65.00 AUD
Category: Military
The story of the Royal Navy in the Second World War is an epic, consisting both of dramatic battles such as the River Plate and Matapan, and drawn-out campaigns such as the escort of convoys to Malta and northern Russia. The author examines the careers of twenty-three sailors who took part in these acti ...Show more
Great ANZAC Stories: The Men and Women Who Created the Digger Legend by Graham Seal
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
Over the years, the experiences of soldiers at war become the stuff of legend: tales of great bravery, battlefield wins, and also the tragic losses and poignant moments. Great ANZAC Stories gathers iconic stories of Australian experience in the major wars the country has fought: World Wars I and II, Kor ...Show more
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative non-fiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the disaster On 1 May, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out ...Show more